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Financial markets, credit constraints, and investment in rural Romania
Chaves, Rodrigo (contributor) - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010524187
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Capital requirements, screening and interlinked sharecropping and credit contracts
Braverman, Avishay; Guasch, J. Luis - 1982
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001941978
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Scaling-Up SME Access to Financial Services
World Bank - 2013
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play a major role in economic development, particularly in emerging countries, but access to finance remains a key constraint to SME. In the light of the new understanding of the SME finance challenges that this report synthesizes, the Financial Inclusion...
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Linking up and reaching out in Bangladesh : information and communications technology for microfinance
Bagazonzya, Henry K. (contributor) - 2010
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The new microfinance handbook : a financial market system perspective
Nelson, Candace (contributor);  … - 2013
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Economic and social impacts of self-help groups in india
Deininger, Klaus W. - 2009
"Although there has been considerable recent interest in micro-credit programs, rigorous evidence on the impacts of forming self-help groups to mobilize savings and foster social empowerment at the local level is virtually non-existent, despite a large number of programs following this pattern....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394178
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Longer-term economic impacts of self-help groups in India
Deininger, Klaus W. - 2009
"Despite the popularity and unique nature of women's self-help groups in India, evidence of their economic impacts is scant. Based on two rounds of a 2,400 household panel, the authors use double differences, propensity score matching, and pipeline comparison to assess economic impacts of longer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394180
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Are women more credit constrained? : experimental evidence on gender and microenterprise returns
De Mel, Suresh J. - 2008
"This paper analyzes data from a randomized experiment on mean returns to capital in Sri Lankan micro-enterprises. The findings show greater returns among men than among women; indeed, returns were not different from zero for women. The authors explore different explanations for the lower...
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Microfinance games
Gine, Xavier (contributor) - 2006
"Microfinance has been heralded as an effective way to address imperfections in credit markets. But from a theoretical … perspective, the success of microfinance contracts has puzzling elements. In particular, the group-based mechanisms often employed … different games that allow them to unpack microfinance mechanisms in a systematic way. They find that risk-taking broadly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522103
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Access to finance by Chilean corporations
Sirtaine, Sophie - 2006
"The author assesses the extent to which Chilean firms have access to sufficient and adequate sources of funds. Access to finance has become an important issue for policymakers in Latin America. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs), in particular, complain that their lack of access to adequate...
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